World Peace is Near Through Balance and Unity

World peace is near through the balance and unity of the collective, individualistic, and harmonious social interactions for collective wellbeing, individualistic achievement, and harmonious cooperation, respectively. The balance and unity of the three social interactions is the three-branch way. Human history is characterized as the progress toward world peace through the three-branch way. In the Modern Period starting from the Renaissance, the three-branch way was formed. In the Postmodern Period starting from the information revolution, world peace is near through the postmodern balanced unified economic, political, education, and religious systems as well as the restrained military system and the sustainable earth. The book is divided into three parts: (1) the three social interactions, (2) the development of the three-branch way, and (3) world peace is near. (1) In the three social lives (interactions), the harmonious social life that lowers conflicts in social interactions and exists only in humans is maximum eager cooperation without lie. The emergence of the harmonious social life and society occurred during human evolution, including ape evolution and hominid evolution. (2) In the Prehistoric Period, the harmonious social life was evolved to adapt to the small social group in the prehistoric hunter-gatherer society. In the Early Period starting from the Neolithic Revolution, the inevitable large civilized social group of the agricultural-nomad society destroyed the prehistoric harmonious small social group. As a result, the collective society and the individualistic society were formed separately. In the collective society, the state collective religion (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Confucianism) dominated. In the individualistic society, the state individualism (Greek mythology and science) dominated. Later, the harmonious religions (Christianity, Buddhism, and Daoism) emerged. In the Modern Period, the modern mass printing and increased literacy led to communication and understanding among the three branches of human society for the modern three-branch society. (3) In the Postmodern Period, the postmodern economy is divided into individualistic (capitalistic), collective (socialistic), and adaptive (unified) economies. The inevitable outcomes of individualistic and collective economies are economic corruption (debt and greed) and economic stagnation (apathy and mismanagement), respectively. Adaptive economy involves economic evolutionary change in cohesive society to adapt to sustainable economy. The postmodern unified political system is divided into the partisan unified political system where the political parties represent separately the collective and the individualistic societies and the nonpartisan unified political system where the state represents both societies. In the partisan unified political system, the government is a popular semi-professional government. In the nonpartisan unified political system, the government is a professional semi-popular government. The balanced unified education system should follow human development from primarily collective education for childhood to primarily individualistic education for adulthood. In the postmodern religious system, the postmodern harmonious religion complementary to the collective and individualistic societies is the most suitable postmodern religion. In the real world, world peace is through both the three-branch way and the deliberate restraint of violence that can be achieved by the restrained military system through the abolishment of offensive military in terms of abolishing military occupation, overseas military bases, aircraft carriers, and nuclear weapons. World peace is on a firm ground with the sustainable earth.

World peace is near through the balance and unity of the collective, individualistic, and harmonious social interactions for collective wellbeing, individualistic achievement, and harmonious cooperation, respectively. The balance and unity of the three social interactions is the three-branch way. Human history is characterized as the progress toward world peace through the three-branch way. In the Modern Period starting from the Renaissance, the three-branch way was formed. In the Postmodern Period starting from the information revolution, world peace is near through the postmodern balanced unified economic, political, education, and religious systems as well as the restrained military system and the sustainable earth. The book is divided into three parts: (1) the three social interactions, (2) the development of the three-branch way, and (3) world peace is near. (1) In the three social lives (interactions), the harmonious social life that lowers conflicts in social interactions and exists only in humans is maximum eager cooperation without lie. The emergence of the harmonious social life and society occurred during human evolution, including ape evolution and hominid evolution. (2) In the Prehistoric Period, the harmonious social life was evolved to adapt to the small social group in the prehistoric hunter-gatherer society. In the Early Period starting from the Neolithic Revolution, the inevitable large civilized social group of the agricultural-nomad society destroyed the prehistoric harmonious small social group. As a result, the collective society and the individualistic society were formed separately. In the collective society, the state collective religion (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Confucianism) dominated. In the individualistic society, the state individualism (Greek mythology and science) dominated. Later, the harmonious religions (Christianity, Buddhism, and Daoism) emerged. In the Modern Period, the modern mass printing and increased literacy led to communication and understanding among the three branches of human society for the modern three-branch society. (3) In the Postmodern Period, the postmodern economy is divided into individualistic (capitalistic), collective (socialistic), and adaptive (unified) economies. The inevitable outcomes of individualistic and collective economies are economic corruption (debt and greed) and economic stagnation (apathy and mismanagement), respectively. Adaptive economy involves economic evolutionary change in cohesive society to adapt to sustainable economy. The postmodern unified political system is divided into the partisan unified political system where the political parties represent separately the collective and the individualistic societies and the nonpartisan unified political system where the state represents both societies. In the partisan unified political system, the government is a popular semi-professional government. In the nonpartisan unified political system, the government is a professional semi-popular government. The balanced unified education system should follow human development from primarily collective education for childhood to primarily individualistic education for adulthood. In the postmodern religious system, the postmodern harmonious religion complementary to the collective and individualistic societies is the most suitable postmodern religion. In the real world, world peace is through both the three-branch way and the deliberate restraint of violence that can be achieved by the restrained military system through the abolishment of offensive military in terms of abolishing military occupation, overseas military bases, aircraft carriers, and nuclear weapons. World peace is on a firm ground with the sustainable earth.

The great question is — does this mean that war can now be outlawed from theworld? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermonon the Mount. It would lift at one stroke, the darkest shadow which has "engulfed mankind from the beginning. It would not only remove fear and bring security — it would not only create new moral and spiritual values — it would produce aneconomic wave of prosperity that would raise the world's standard of living beyond anything ever dreamed of by man. (General Douglas MacArthur)We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straightjacket of the past. We must sufficient imagination and courage to translatethe universal wish for peace - which is rapidly becoming a necessity - intoactuality." (General Douglas MacArthur)

World Peace is near through Balance and Unity

Abstract 5Diagrams and Tables 6Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 6The Social Life System for Primates 7The Properties of Social Lives 7Ape Evolution and Social Structures 8Hominid Evolution: The Evolution of the Conscience Instinct 8Postmodern Economy 9Postmodern Unified Political Systems 9The History of Human Society 10Introduction 111. Local Peace and World Peace 131.1. The Way to Local Peace 131.2. The Way to World Peace 14

Part 1. The Three Social Interactions

172. The Social Lives 182.1. The Social Temperaments for the Primate Social Structures 182.2. The Harmonious Social Life 213. Ape Evolution and Hominid Evolution 273.1. Ape Evolution 303.1.1. The Original Ape: the solitary ape 303.1.2 The First Split: the peacemaking ape 313.1.3. The Second Split: the loyal ape 313.1.4. The Third Split: the harmonious ape 323.1.5 The Fourth Split: the aggressive ape 343.2. Hominid Evolution 364. The Interaction 394.1. The Properties of the Social Lives 394.2. The Interaction of the Social Lives 414.3. The Enforcement of the Social Life 42

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Part 2. The Development of the Three-Branch Way

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5. The Prehistoric Period 455.1. The Prehistoric Harmonious Society 455.2. The Religious Prehistoric Harmonious Society 465.3. The Exit from the Harmonious Society 486. The Early Period 52

6.1. The Early Collective Society 526.2. The Early Individualistic Society 556.3. The Revival of the Harmonious Society 566.3.1. The Reasons for the Revival 566.3.2. The Conversion to the Harmonious Social Life 587. The Modern Period 72

7.1. The Modern Individualistic Society 727.1.1. The Renaissance 727.1.2. The Industrial Revolution 737.2. The Modern Collective Society 74

7.3. The Modern Constitutional Two-Party Society 75

7.4. The Christian Church 777.4.1. The Early Church as the Harmonious Society 777.4.2 The Church as the State Religion 787.4.3 The Reformation: the breakdown of the intermediary 797.4.4.

The Puritan Movement: the breakdown of the collective society

807.5. The Three-Branch Unified society of America 807.5.1. The Decline of the State Religion 807.5.2. The Separation of Religion and State 817.6. The Harmonious Moral Religions 82